Off Track: Shoyu
From the Images of Old Hawaii website
The soybean finds numerous uses, it can be eaten cooked, ground into flour (kinako / roasted soy flour) or used for the manufacture of shoyu, miso or tofu. In 1868, the first 153-Japanese immigrants arrived in Honolulu; they brought with them miso and shoyu.
The Japanese word for ‘soy sauce’ is shoyu; it derives from and is written with the same characters as the jiangyou.
In 1917, the Mogi family, the Takanashi family and the Horikiri family merged their businesses to form Noda Shoyu Co., Ltd; in 1964, it was known as Kikkoman Shoyu Co, Ltd. At the International Exhibition held in Vienna, Austria, in 1873, the ‘Kikkoman’ soy was among the exhibits … Kikkoman was awarded the gold.
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